I have this empty 29 gallon aquarium and I want to put sw fish in it but I am a newbie with sw fish. So I was wondering if anybody knows what the best sw fish to start with?
best beginner sw fish
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Whoa! slow down!
whoa, WHOA! slow down there fella! first, have you done your homework? Have you got your tank set up and your nitrogen cycle completed? If not, I recommend something hardy that will survive the surge in ammonia. Try a couple of damsels. They come in many colors and sizes and most of them semi territorial and semi aggressive so if you want to add different things later you may or may not have to remove them. But they will give your nitrogen cycle a good start with little to no risk to them.
I still have my original damsels. they're okay, not too mean to anything in the tank. they do test everything new that I add. It's kind of ammusing and they don't really do any harm... yet.
The most charming fishes I've come across are the lawn mower blenny and ofcourse the group known as clowns. These are only if your tank is set up and a few weeks old, though.
whoa, WHOA! slow down there fella! first, have you done your homework? Have you got your tank set up and your nitrogen cycle completed? If not, I recommend something hardy that will survive the surge in ammonia. Try a couple of damsels. They come in many colors and sizes and most of them semi territorial and semi aggressive so if you want to add different things later you may or may not have to remove them. But they will give your nitrogen cycle a good start with little to no risk to them.
I still have my original damsels. they're okay, not too mean to anything in the tank. they do test everything new that I add. It's kind of ammusing and they don't really do any harm... yet.
The most charming fishes I've come across are the lawn mower blenny and ofcourse the group known as clowns. These are only if your tank is set up and a few weeks old, though.
Swimfins
This is as good as it gets.
Don't risk the heartbreak of lost fish, and even damsels suffer in a tank break-in, though they may survive.
Set it up. Are you using live rock? Get a powerhead or a strong filter or better get both. Substrate? Aragonite is best. Plan for what you'd like to keep, set up your tank and cycle it first.
In about a 3 weeks, month you can add some hermit crabs and hardy fish, like the damsels (which are aggressive) or something like clownfish or firefish or dottybacks or wrasses or pseudochromis (prettier in my opinion) if you wait until things are very stable.
Go slow and think about what you want. It works out better in the end...
I lost a blue-green chromis to ich, and I think it was because my nirtites were just a tad too high. Although tuff fish, they can succumb too and stressing them by an uncycled tank is just mean.
Set it up. Are you using live rock? Get a powerhead or a strong filter or better get both. Substrate? Aragonite is best. Plan for what you'd like to keep, set up your tank and cycle it first.
In about a 3 weeks, month you can add some hermit crabs and hardy fish, like the damsels (which are aggressive) or something like clownfish or firefish or dottybacks or wrasses or pseudochromis (prettier in my opinion) if you wait until things are very stable.
Go slow and think about what you want. It works out better in the end...
I lost a blue-green chromis to ich, and I think it was because my nirtites were just a tad too high. Although tuff fish, they can succumb too and stressing them by an uncycled tank is just mean.
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Swimfins
This is as good as it gets.
gman52 said:
But not if you plan on keeping other species. They will harass other fish till death. But if its only damsels ya want, damsels ya get.